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Argentine authorities raided a Catholic-run school for youths with hearing disabilities Thursday as part of an investigation into alleged sexual abuse of vulnerable children that has shocked Pope Francis’s homeland.
A police official in Buenos Aires province said officers seized documents from the archives of the Antonio Provolo Institute in the city of La Plata dating back more than 30 years. The official, wh

The toll from an earthquake that rocked Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido rose to 18 on Friday, and in one small town two dozen people remained unaccounted for after an entire mountainside collapsed on their homes.
The regio

Germany on Thursday handed back a pre-Columbian gold funeral mask to Peru, the Peruvian Culture Ministry said.
The eighth century Sican mask was handed over to the Peruvian embassy in Berlin by Bavarian authorities.
"Im happy to receive on

A day after a gunman killed three and wounded two others in the lobby of Fifth Thirds headquarters, the banks CEO said America needs to end the mass shootings that have repeatedly erupted across the country.
"This has to stop – we have

"Regardless of Florences eventual track, large swells will begin to affect Bermuda later today and portions of the U.S. East Coast this weekend, resulting in life-threatening surf and rip currents," the hurricane center said Friday morning.

The water bottle could be from Los Angeles, the food container from Manila, the plastic bag from Shanghai.
But whatever its source, almost all of the trash in the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from countries around the Pacific Rim.

Nightfall in El Salvador’s capital was fast approaching and Ernesto Pena was waiting for a bus that never arrived. His work day delivering rice and cooking oil to street vendors in the bustling district of Santa Tecla had ended and like m

President Donald Trump could make a state visit to the United Kingdom after the country departs the European Union next year, according to a recording obtained by British media.
British and American officials were heard discussing the plans

Friday marks 70 years since the MV Empire Windrush docked here with nearly 500 people from Caribbean nations ready to help rebuild Britain after the ravages of World War II.
But this years Windrush Day celebration is marred by an ongoing political

Women in this strict Muslim country finally get to sit behind the wheel and legally drive for the first time starting Sunday. One side benefit: This milestone could decrease the nations exorbitant traffic fatalities.
“Saudi Arabia has

Sweden, known for its generous social benefits and commitment to gender equality, is considered the most reputable country in the world, according to an annual ranking by Reputation Institute.
Sweden rose from third place in 2017 to first place t

A deadly explosion struck a huge rally for Ethiopia’s reformist new prime minister on Saturday shortly after he spoke and was waving to the crowd that had turned out in numbers unseen in recent years in the East African nation.
Addressing th

Japanese retail chain Muji has been fined in China for listing Taiwan as a country on some of its packaging.
The company has to pay 200,000 yuan (£23,400; $31,300) for listing Taiwan as a "country of origin".
Taiwan has been sel

A firefighting robot is dousing an unexploded World War Two bomb with cold water in the German city of Dresden, to allow experts to defuse it.
The first attempt to defuse the 250kg (550-pound) bomb failed and caused a small explosion and fire on W

Nigerian soldiers have raped women and girls who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Amnesty International has said.
Troops separated women from their husbands and raped them, sometimes in exchange for food, in refugee camps

The missile that downed a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine in 2014 belonged to a Russian brigade, international investigators say.
For the first time, the Dutch-led team said the missile had come from a unit based in western Russia.

A student has returned to Italy after accusing her family in Pakistan of luring her home to terminate her pregnancy.
The 19-year-old, named Farah, had been studying in Verona when she became pregnant a few months ago.
Her family took her back t

The EU Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, has urged Belgium to grant citizenship to British EU staff worried about their post-Brexit status.
About 1,100 UK citizens work for the EU in Brussels and Luxembourg.
Mr Juncker called Belgium a

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says there will be no impunity for Eta, despite the separatist groups announcement that it is disbanding.
In an audio statement provided to the BBC, the Basque organisation said it had ceased all political acti

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged Donald Trump not to walk away from an international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Guterres said there was a real risk of war if the 2015 agreement w

A German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was kidnapped in Somalias capital Mogadishu, the aid group said.
She was seized by unknown armed men from inside the ICRC compound at 20:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on We

The widow of Chinas Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has said she is ready to die in protest at being held under house arrest by Chinese authorities.
Liu Xia, 57, has been under house arrest since 2010, after her husband was awarded the Nobel p

At least 95 people have been killed and scores more injured in fierce dust storms that hit the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The storms on Wednesday disrupted electricity, uprooted trees, destroyed houses and killed livest

In a rare meeting outside New York, the UN Security Council is holding talks at a remote farmhouse in southern Sweden.
The informal session, which is held annually, is expected to focus on the Syrian conflict and on overcoming members deep divisio

When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wore a traditional Maori cloak to meet the Queen, it had quite a few people scratching their heads - and most New Zealanders glowing with pride.
Its a korowai, a garment woven with feathers and steepe

International chemical weapons experts have finally gone to the site of the suspected attack in Syria, Russias foreign ministry says.
The team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) left Damascus for the nearby town

Ten people have been killed in Nicaragua in three days of clashes between police and opponents of changes to the pension system, officials say.
Vice-President Rosario Murillo blamed the violence on "vampires", but said the government was

The meeting scheduled for April 27 between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Koreas leader Kim Jong Un, is providing a sense of optimism on the Korean Peninsula.
But for many families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Kore

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced he will suspend nuclear and long-range missile tests and plans to close a nuclear test site.
The Korean Central News Agency, which is North Koreas state media agency, made the announcement as the nations

Vladimir Putin, Russias longest serving leader since Josef Stalin, seeks a fourth term as president in this Sundays election.
Putin is a former KGB spy who earned a Ph.D. in economics and has a judo blackbelt. His tough-guy image is well kno

In the play, a puppet starts to offer a cigarette to a friend but his cough gets the better of him, which makes his voice a bit funny-sounding — eliciting peals of laughter from a roomful of a hundred schoolchildren (and some peeking in through

A refugee was convicted of murdering a medical student in the southern German city of Freiburg on Thursday after more than six months of trial. The killer was given a life sentence by the judge, who in her verdict stressed the particular severity of

France presented a bill against sexual harassment and abuse on Wednesday, with measures including a law that states people under 15 years of age cannot consent to sex and fines for sexual street harassment.
The legislation, which still needs to be

North Korea’s state media on Wednesday rejected the idea that international sanctions or other pressure led to an easing of tensions on the Korean Peninsula, saying it is the result of the country’s strength and confidence.
“The

Brits are up in arms after the current manufacturer of United Kingdom passports claimed that the country’s post-Brexit travel documents will be made “in France.”
After Britains historic split with the European Union that is expec

Facing a nearly impossible job search and rising costs in the city, Margianna Xirogianni quit the rat race and moved here, a tiny village 80 miles southwest of Athens.
Xirogianni, three of her siblings and other partners set up Green Land, a coope

Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Islam has agreed to evacuate jihadist fighters being held in its prisons in besieged Eastern Ghouta, a statement says.
The group says the decision was made in consultation with a delegation that entered with a UN aid co

A Turkish court has released on bail two journalists who were held for over a year on terror-related charges.
The editor-in-chief of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, Murat Sabuncu, and investigative reporter, Ahmet Sik, were both let out of ja

Belgiums football association has scrapped its official World Cup song with rapper Damso after he was accused of sexism in his lyrics.
The choice of Damso, whose songs detail sexual violence against women and include misogynistic language, was cri

Tens of thousands of Slovaks joined an anti-government protest in the capital Bratislava on Friday.
Estimates of the crowds size were more than 40,000 people, in what is thought to be the largest demonstration in the country since the fall of Comm

Spains Supreme Court says the man nominated to lead Catalonias regional government cannot be freed from jail to attend an investiture ceremony.
Pro-independence activist Jordi Sanchez, 53, had asked to be released to attend Mondays debate and vote

The Yemeni army and popular committees intensified on Monday thir strikes against the Saudi forces in Najran and Jizan, launching heavy rocketry attacks on their sites and inflicting heavy losses upon them.
The Saudi forces escalated their aggress

Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a 30-year prison term for former South Korean President Park Geun-hye for alleged bribery, abuse of power and other crimes in a landmark corruption case that marked a stunning fall from grace for the country’s fi

In a vote on Monday night, the local council (authority) in a small southwestern German village decided by 10 votes to 3 that a Nazi-era bell — complete with the inscription "Everything for the Fatherland - Adolf Hitler" — shoul

Germanys top administrative court has ruled that it is legal for cities to ban diesel cars. The government opposes the bans, but is under pressure from the EU to do more to combat air pollution.
Germanys Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig rul

Chinas ruling Communist Party has proposed removing a limit of two consecutive terms for the countrys president, the official news agency said Sunday, appearing to lay the groundwork for party leader Xi Jinping to rule as president beyond 2023.
Th

Global warming has prompted Norway to invest about $13 million to strengthen its 10-year-old doomsday seed vault, in which about a million crop varieties are stored on a remote ice-covered island.
The update at Svalbard, an archipelago near the Ar

Bangladeshi police have clashed with thousands of protesters, as opposition leader Khaleda Zia was jailed for five years for corruption.
Ms Zia, a former prime minister, denies misusing international funds donated to a charitable childrens trust.

Daimler has issued a second emphatic apology to China after its subsidiary, Mercedes Benz, quoted the Dalai Lama in an Instagram post on Monday.
It initially apologised for the post on Weibo, Chinas Twitter-like platform, on Tuesday.
China sees

The US has carried out rare air strikes on Syrian pro-government forces after what it called an "unprovoked attack" on allied Kurdish and Arab fighters.
US officials estimated that 100 pro-government fighters were killed in the incident

North Korea has held a military parade attended by leader Kim Jong-un, a day before the opening of the Winter Olympics in the South.
The North often boasts of its parades but reports of this surfaced afterwards with TV only airing delayed footage.

A Japanese woman who was forcibly sterilised aged 15 due to a mental disability has become the first of thousands of victims of the country’s former eugenics law to sue the government.
The woman, who is in her 60s, is seeking 11m yen (&pound

More than 63 million women are “missing” statistically across India, and more than 21 million girls are unwanted by their families, government officials say.
The skewed ratio of men to women is largely the result of sex-selective abort

Leaders of Yemen’s Saudi-backed government are reportedly preparing to flee from Aden as fighters from the armed wing of a political movement demanding secession for southern Yemen seized large parts of the city after three days of fighting.

A little-known Egyptian politician has added his name to the candidate list for elections in March, minutes before a nomination deadline was set to pass with President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi the sole officially recognised candidate.
Any candidate rep

Theresa May will attempt to reset her relationship with China in a vital three-day trip this week, leading the largest-ever UK trade delegation, comprising 50 business leaders.
Beijing’s ambassador to London has claimed Brexit is a “st

An eight-month-old baby girl has been raped, allegedly by her cousin, in the Indian capital Delhi.
Police say she is in a critical condition after being admitted to hospital on Sunday. They have arrested the 28-year-old cousin.
Delhi Commission

Russian President Vladimir Putin says a new list published by the US as part of a sanctions law has in effect targeted all of the Russian people.
The list names 210 top Russians as part of a law aimed at punishing Moscow for meddling in the US ele

Khodor Awarki, a political writer and a businessman, who has been working in different economic fields since 1993 in many countries including Lebanon, France, Canada, and Kuwait, published a statement this morning. In his statement, Awarki announced

Three lions which had escaped from a world famous game reserve in South Africa have been killed.
A farmer living near Kruger National Park (KNP) shot dead one of the males when he found all three eating one of his cows, a parks spokeswoman said.

Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who was Chinas most prominent human rights and democracy advocate, has died aged 61.
The activist had been serving an 11-year prison term for "subversion" and was recently moved to a hospital for treatment for

A Chechen gunman and four accomplices have been given long jail sentences for the killing of leading Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov near the Kremlin.
Zaur Dadayev was jailed for 20 years by a Moscow military court while the others were gi

Paris Match does not need to pull an edition showing CCTV mages of the 14 July attack in Nice from Frances newsstands but is forbidden from re-publishing it, a court has ruled.
The ruling, made late on Thursday, came after the Paris prosecutor cal

Theresa May has revealed she shed a "little tear" when she learned the result of the election exit poll suggesting she would lose her majority.
The prime minister said her husband Philip told her the news - and it came as a "complet

The Scottish and Welsh governments have threatened to block the key Brexit bill which will convert all existing EU laws into UK law.
The repeal bill, published earlier, is also facing opposition from Labour and other parties in the Commons.
Min

South Korea’s military said Tuesday that North Korea held major live-fire drills in an area around its eastern coastal town of Wonsan as it marked the anniversary of the founding of its military.
The exercise took place as a U.S. guided-miss

President Trump’s top security aides will host an unusual White House briefing on North Korea for the entire U.S. Senate on Wednesday amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and pressure on Washington to organize an effective response to P

China launched its first aircraft carrier built entirely on its own on Wednesday, in a demonstration of the growing technical sophistication of its defense industries and determination to safeguard its maritime territorial claims and crucial trade ro

Ivanka Trump brushed aside groans and hisses Tuesday over her father’s track record and defended his attitudes toward women as she made her first international outing as a White House adviser.
Trump pledged to push for “incremental, po

Payments for a trip to Russia that included dining with President Vladimir Putin were not fully disclosed when Michael Flynn applied for a security clearance earlier this year, the heads of a bipartisan congressional investigation said Tuesday after

In the latest complication on an increasingly messy battlefield, Turkish warplanes launched multiple airstrikes on Tuesday against U.S.-backed Kurdish paramilitary forces that have been key to the fight against Islamic State in northern Iraq and Syri

Global religious persecution spiked from 2014 to 2015, the Pew Research Center noted in a new report released this week.
“Government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion increased in 2015 for the first time in t

British police are investigating an acid attack at a London club that led to a mass evacuation.
Police said Monday 12 people were treated in hospitals for burns. None of the injuries was said to be life-threatening. Two men in their 20s were in se

An extraordinary scenario is taking place right out in the open, and we all seem to be missing it. The subject is the utterly incompetent protection our “intelligence community” (as they like to be called) is providing for the nation&rsqu

Donald Trump and senior officials said on Sunday the US would consider any lever – diplomatic, economic or military – to forestall North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, a day after the vice-president arrived in the area and the isolated

Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitoring group has said.
Saturday’s blast hit a convoy carrying residents from the n

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has achieved victory in a historic referendum on a package of constitutional amendments that will grant him sweeping new powers.
Sadi Güven, the head of Turkey’s high electoral board (YSK), c

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said in a radio interview Tuesday that she hoped President Trump has a better understanding of Russia’s role in the escalating Syrian conflict.
“There’s no question Russia is a bad actor i

A 39-year-old old Uzbek man confessed Tuesday to ramming a stolen truck into a crowd in Stockholm, killing four people and wounding 15, his lawyer said.
The Stockholm District Court ruled that police could detain Rakhmat Akilov for a month after h

U.S. commanders and Pentagon strategists tried Monday to shift their focus back to the fight against the Islamic State group after a White House-ordered attack against forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, insisting the one-time strike to pu

North Korea is vowing tough counteraction to any military moves that might follow the U.S. decision to send the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and its battle group to waters off the Korean Peninsula.
The statement from Pyongyang comes as tension

President Trump on Tuesday said he recently tried to bargain with President Xi Jinping of China over the North Korea situation — but also provided assurance that the United States will “solve” the problem if China decides not to hel

There’s no doubt that an extreme-right French group known for violence and large doses of anti-Semitism doesn’t like journalists or the establishment.
“You lie … you spend your time at society soirees … you are the

MOSCOW — At least 10 people were killed on Monday when a powerful explosion tore through a subway car in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second biggest city, officials said.
Dozens of people, including children, were also injured by the blast

Al Qaeda is making a comeback in the Middle East and North Africa by expanding its armies and infiltrating new territories, complicating President Trump’s priority of destroying the world’s other major Salafist Sunni group, the Islamic St

LONDON (AP) — British police say that two people remain in custody following last week’s attack in London as messaging services face criticism for encrypted networks that allow attackers to communicate in secret.
Attacker Khalid Masood

Seven high school students and a teacher have died and more than 40 people have been injured after an avalanche hit ski slopes in Japan.
A total of 52 students and 11 teachers from seven high schools were taking part in a three-day mountaineering

A dispute over the reform of public broadcasting has plunged Israel’s coalition government into a crisis, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten to dissolve parliament and hold a snap election to block a plan to begin independe

Residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul say a series of airstrikes carried out there in recent weeks by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State could have killed as many as 200 civilians, in what would be the highest civilian death toll in a US-l

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has appeared in a Moscow court a day after some of the biggest anti-government protests in years swept the country.
Navalny had faced up to 15 days in jail on a charge of organising the protests, which led

Fears of tensions mounting in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean Seas reignited after the Turkish president raised the prospect of a referendum on accession talks with the EU and the Greek defence minister said the country was ready for any provoca

Mohamed Soltan, an American who was imprisoned for nearly two years in Egypt, says he is optimistic that President Trump will do a better job than former President Barack Obama in securing the release of the other U.S. citizens detained by the milita

A report by a United Nations body accusing Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” on Palestinians has ignited a fracas at the UN, prompting the withdrawal of the report – and the subsequent resignation of the senior official respo

President Donald Trump says that the United States is prepared to act alone if China does not take a tougher stand against North Korea’s nuclear program.
Trump’s comments in an interview with the Financial Times come just days be

A few years ago, my husband and I ran into a mutual acquaintance at a restaurant. This young man – a person who would surely identify as progressive – spent the entirety our interaction completely ignoring me. He spoke only to my husband;

President Trump made brief remarks Monday about the subway bombing in St. Petersburg, Russia, saying that the deadly attack was “absolutely a terrible thing.”
The bomb blast on a subway train in Russia’s second-largest city kille

Fox News has dropped a legal analyst who claimed British intelligence might have helped spy on Donald Trump during his bid to become US president.
Andrew Napolitano had been pulled from the channel, a source at Fox said. The network made no immedi

The French interior minister has been forced to resign in a row over employing his teenage daughters as parliamentary assistants during the school holidays, in another blow to the country’s beleaguered political elite with one month to go until

The UK government has announced a sweeping cabin ban on laptops and tablets on inbound flights from six countries, following a similar move by the US on Monday.
The UK ban on any electronic item larger than a normal smartphone applies to all direc

Fraud investigators have launched a review of the activities of Britain’s high street banks following revelations in the Guardian about a $20bn money laundering scam that MPs described as a national disgrace and scandal.
Forced to answer urg

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives’ vest inside the main judicial building in the Syrian capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding many others, state media said.
The official news agenc

Saudi Arabian Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pushed for deeper U.S. cooperation in the war on terrorism during a lunch at the White House on Tuesday, the first such meeting President Trump has hosted with an Arab Muslim leader since assuming

For those with the dimmest knowledge of the Netherlands, a parody of Donald Trump’s “America first” mantra that went viral became something of a learning moment, at least about how the Dutch view the US president.
“We built

The joke did the rounds among Iraqi university students the day after President Trump ordered a travel ban in January on seven mainly Muslim nations – including Iraq.
“Hey, are you aware that we are banned from going to America? Congra

As the Malaysian police seek further evidence to back their suspicions that the North Korean government was behind last month’s assassination of Kim Jong-nam in Kuala Lumpur, international investigators are gathering testimony to put top North

The 400 Marines dispatched to northern Syria last week to back up US-trained rebel forces battling the so-called Islamic State were plunked down into a war of acute risk and geopolitical complexity that is entering its seventh year.
Little fanfare

Diplomatic crisis has often helped boost Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğans popularity. And he appears to be hoping that the latest standoff with Europe, particularly the Dutch, will resonate as well with his domestic audience.
Prickly Turkey

Tunisia’s top diplomat says the Trump administration should “reach out more” to the tiny North African nation for collaboration against the evolving threat posed by the Islamic State — and to bolster the fragile island of demo

Relations between Turkey and Germany have lurched further into crisis after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, accused Berlin of “aiding and abetting” terror in an increasingly acrimonious row over the arrest and incarceration o

Twelve people are being treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in Mosul, the United Nations has said, raising fears of the first chemical attack in the besieged city.
The World Health Organization (WHO), along with partners and l

A Russian opposition figure who recently emerged from a coma after experiencing sudden organ failure for the second time in two years believes President Vladimir Putin’s regime responsible for both near-death experience.
Vladimir Kara-Murza,

A woman who went on the run after admitting in court to giving her husband just enough cockroach poison to kill his erections could be hiding out in Mexico - according to authorities.
They believe the callous wife, who was fed up with all the sex

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan on Saturday executed 10 prisoners with ties to Islamic extremism who carried out five shootings and a bombing since 2003, the government spokesman said. It was the largest round of executions in the kingdom in recent

more than two years after a multi-sided civil war erupted inside Yemen that allowed Al Qaedas local franchise to amass power and seize territory, President Trump has directed the Pentagon to embark on a complicated counter-terrorism campaign.
Trum

ISIS launched an attack on Afghan security posts killing 17 soldiers, an Afghan official said Friday.
Ahmad Ali Hazrat, chief of the provincial council in the province, said the attack Thursday night took place in the Dih Bala district in eastern

Spains Princess Cristina was found not guilty in a tax fraud case Friday, while her husband was convicted and sentenced to more than six years in prison.
A panel of judges ruled that Cristina, the sister of King Felipe VI, will be required to pay

The lunch-hour rush in Washington on Thursday was prime time to witness some strange choreography.
If you were at the right spots around noon, it went something like this: A would-be diner approaches a locked restaurant entrance, tugs a few times

Pakistani forces killed and arrested dozens of suspects in sweeping raids overnight and into Friday, a day after a massive suicide bombing by the Islamic State group killed 75 worshippers at a famed Sufi shrine in the countrys south.
The attack &m

It seems an ice age since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Germanys Angela Merkel were anointed the last defenders of the liberal international order.
But it was actually only weeks ago, in December. And their anointer, then-U.S. vice-president J

A car bomb attack targeting government lodgings in southeastern Turkey has killed a three-year-old child and wounded 15 people, an official says.
The bomb exploded near the homes of judges and prosecutors in the mainly Kurdish town of Viransehir,

North Korea said Friday it will reject the results of an autopsy on leader Kim Jong-uns estranged half brother, the victim of an apparent assassination this week at an airport in Malaysia.
Pyongyangs ambassador said Malaysian officials may be &quo

Zakharova stressed that one of the candidates could look pro-Russian only against the background of the other, who expressed rampant russophobic views.
"There was no pro-Russian candidate, it’s obvious, to my mind… Bu

The Zapad 2017 exercises will be held as a part of general preparatory system drills.
"In 2017 the participation of Engineer Troops is planned in general preparatory system drills, the main of which are the joint strategic drills

Seven young people, aged 16 to 20, suspected of having been involved in the October 2016 clashes with police in Viry-Chatillon were indicted for attempted murder, Evry prosecutor Eric Lallement has announced.
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Over 7,000 Russian servicemen were involved in mine-clearing operations on 48 sites in 2016, Stavitsky said.
"In 2016, the tasks of searching for and eliminating explosive devices were carried out on 48 sites. In total, about 93,0

Earlier, Gambian President Adama Barrow wrote on Twitter that Jammeh had agreed to step down.
"Today I decided conscientiously to leave the leadership of this great nation with infinite gratitude," Jammeh said on Saturday, as

May will likely fly out to Washington DC next Thursday and her visit will last "a couple of days," the newspaper said on Friday citing anonymous sources.
"They are really, really keen to capture the Reagan-Thatcher idea: A new p

The Russian General Staff said that Russian and Turkish military aircraft have conducted their first joint operation in Syria.
The Turkish Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out their joint operation against Daesh

Italian police have arrested the head of a top amateur cycling team and several associates suspected of encouraging young cyclists to take banned drugs.
Police raids took place in Lucca and elsewhere in Tuscany, media report.
The cycling team w

Two men involved in the November 2015 Paris attacks have been killed in Syria in a US air strike, officials say.
The men, named in a Pentagon statement as Salah Gourmat and Sammy Djedou, were members of so-called Islamic State.
A third member

International organisations are calling for an investigation in Cameroon after four people were killed during unrest in the country’s English-speaking regions.
Tensions have been brewing for the past month in Cameroon’s two

The king of a region in Uganda has been charged with terrorism at a hearing in the east of the country before a courtroom packed with royal supporters.
Charles Mumbere was arrested last month after a government raid on his palace in which more

The chancellor of a New Zealand university appears to have apologised for saying a woman vet was "equivalent to two-fifths" of a man because she would take time out to have a family.
He also said men joining the course tended to &quo

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered his officials to develop nuclear-powered ships, accusing the United States of violating last years international nuclear deal.
World powers had agreed to lift sanctions in exchange for curbs to Iran

Syrian pro-government forces have been entering homes in eastern Aleppo and killing those inside, including women and children, the UN says.
The UNs human rights office said it had reliable evidence that in four areas 82 civilians were killed.

Israels new ambassador to Turkey -- the first since 2010 -- arrived in Ankara Thursday, marking the full restoration of ties between the two countries after six years of animosity.
Eitan Naeh, who served as a secretary at the embassy

Menacing black smoke hangs over the town of al-Qayyara. The air here is poison.
Children with blackened hands and soot-stained faces play beneath the toxic plumes. The early afternoon sun is so eclipsed by the haze that day seems like endless

Chinese couturier Ma Ke is a media-shy fashion-world maverick.
Shes built two of Chinas most influential designer brands and dresses the countrys first lady, Peng Liyuan -- but doesnt consider herself a designer.
Preferring a reclusive life i

The bodies of 71 people killed in a plane crash in Colombia that devastated a Brazilian football team are being returned home, as the teams home town prepares for a memorial service.
More than 100,000 people are expected to turn out for a cere

A woman has been given a year’s suspended jail sentence for posing as the cousin of a victim in last year’s Germanwings plane crash and obtaining compensation offered by the airline.
The woman pretended to be a relative of a teache

Serving tea and receiving guests may not be everyones dream job, but it was a good enough prospect to make nearly 10,000 people apply for one receptionist job.
Chinas highly competitive civil service recruitment process recently saw a record-setti

A war-torn state and a country ruled by an oppressive military junta for decades are home to the worlds most generous people, research suggests.
People in Iraq are the kindest to strangers, while Myanmars residents give the most away, according

Fires are raging across parts of the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, three days into a French operation to demolish it.
It was unclear who set the dozens of fires overnight and in the morning.
The clearance began on Monday and about

In a bit of woodland on the outskirts of Moscow, several dozen students are running around in combat fatigues, shooting one another with soft air-gun pellets.
The weekend paintballing trip has been organised by an opposition party. It all looks ha

Spain is coming under pressure from Nato allies not to allow the refuelling of Russian warships bound for Syria.
The Spanish government is now reviewing the permit for refuelling at its enclave of Ceuta in north Africa.
The UK said it wou

A South African minister has thrown his support behind protesting female students, who accuse their high school of operating a racist hair policy.
Pupils at the private Pretoria Girls High say they have been repeatedly warned to straighten the

The US says fighting between Turkey, pro-Turkish rebels and Kurdish-aligned forces in northern Syria is "unacceptable" and must stop.
Clashes in places where so-called Islamic State (IS) was not present were a "source of deep co

After four days of intense fighting in Brazils capital over the impeachment charges facing Dilma Rousseff, the suspended president got her turn on the stage Monday, defending herself and declaring the trial a political power gra

A fire Monday at Belgiums national criminology institute in Brussels was probably an arson attack aimed at destroying unidentified files, authorities said.
Prosecutors spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch said a car broke through institutes fence at a

Ever since Venezuela temporarily reopened six border crossings withColombia in July, more than 1,000 Venezuelans a day have been streaming into this northern border city as an economic lifeline.
As their countrys ec

Contractors who reinforced buildings "on the cheap" may have run up the death toll in central Italys devastating earthquake and could face criminal charges, a local prosecutor said Sunday.
Also Sunday, Pope Francis

Tens of thousands Brazilian demonstrators took to the streets on Sunday to protest the social and economic policies of President Dilma Rousseff. The marchers claim the country’s leader supports corruption and demand that she resigns or is im

Less than 27 percent of the $3.5 billion aid pledged by international donors to help rebuild Gaza in the wake of unprecedented destruction caused by last summers Israeli Operation Protective Edge has been disbursed, a new report says.
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The Russian president has repealed the ban prohibiting the delivery of S-300 missile air defense systems to Iran, according to the Kremlins press service. The ban was introduced by former President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010.
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A video allegedly showing Islamic State militants using bulldozers and explosives to destroy the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud has been posted online. The UNESCO cultural site near Mosul is one of Iraqi’s greatest archaeological treasures.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief concern is that Tehran will in fact fulfill the agreement on its nuclear program that it negotiated with six world powers, a report citing a high-profile security meeting has said.
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At least 200 antinuclear activists have blocked the gates to Faslane naval base in Scotland, a home of British nuclear submarines armed with Trident intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to social media posts.
Protesters demand scrappi

The unknown foreign vessel the Swedish Navy searched for near Stockholm last autumn was actually a “workboat,” a senior navy official says. Local media had alleged a hunt was on to try and find a Russian submarine, which was believed

An eight-month-old puppy was banned from going anywhere near David Cameron “for security” reasons on Sunday after the prime minister gave a speech in Cheltenham.
Cameron was visiting Cheltenham to lay out the Conservative Party&rsq

Britain is one of the least religious countries in the world, coming sixth from bottom in a global study of belief carried out across 65 countries.
Win/Gallup International polling suggested that over 50 percent of Britons did not believe in

A Labour councilors son who was detained in Turkey on suspicion of trying to enter Syria to join the terror group ISIS is being flown back to the UK, an MP claimed.
Waheed Ahmed, a 21-year-old man from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, and eight o

The French economy, the second largest in the eurozone, remained stuck in deflation in February, according to official figures published Thursday, as the European Central Bank launched an anti-deflation programme, AFP reports.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conceded Thursday that the centre-left opposition could win next weeks general election and appealed to voters not to take the chance with national security, AFP reports.
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The IMF handed Ukraine a $17.5 billion lifeline Wednesday as the United States agreed to send military aid to bolster its forces against pro-Russian rebels -- but stopped short of promising weapons, AFP reports.
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AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes said Thursday he was not giving up on finding more bodies from one of the airlines jets that crashed in the Java Sea last year, but flagged the hunt will draw to a close within weeks, AFP reports.
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Two years after Pope Francis swept into the Vatican vowing to shake up the Church, his opponents are playing a waiting game as they seek to put the brakes on his reform drive, AFP reports.
The first leader of the worlds Roman Catholi

Greece has railed against what it sees as German dominance since the 2010 start of the eurozone financial crisis, but antagonism between the two countries can be traced back to the 19th century, AFP reports.
Historians point to the m

The lawyers of former Kazakh diplomat and Malta exile Rakhat Aliyev are insisting that his death in an Austrian prison was no suicide, and are calling for an independent investigation into the matter.
Dr Aliyev, a former Kazakh ambassador to A

Informed Austrian sources on the ongoing investigations on the assassination of the well-known Kazakh opposition "Rakhat Aliyev" , who was former son in law of President Nazarbayev revealed the assassinat

Austria has asked Switzerland to carry out an autopsy on Rakhat Aliyev, a Kazakh dissident found hanged in an Austrian prison last week, to dispel any suggestions of a cover up after a first post mortem found traces of sedatives.
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Russia voiced confidence on Tuesday that world powers and Iran would be able to reach a comprehensive accord over Tehrans disputed nuclear programme by a June 30 final deadline, AFP reports.
Moscows chief nuclear negotiator said afte

Farmers trying to extract gold from an abandoned mine in central Chinawere overcome by chemical fumes, leaving three dead and six hospitalized, state media reported Tuesday.
Rescuers were dispatched to the mine in Songxian County in the c

Islamic State militants have abducted at least 70 Christians, including women and children, after overrunning a string of villages in northeasternSyria, activists and relatives said Tuesday.
The Sunni extremists, who follow a radic

A wide swath of the country is expecting more winter precipitation that forecasters warn could lead to dangerous road conditions during the Tuesday morning commute.
A mix of snow, sleet, rain and freezing rain is expected in parts of the south

Two major international publications said today they will be publishing a portion of “hundreds” of leaked spy documents covering nearly the last decade, centering on South Africa’s spy agency and involving the CIA and Britain&